Española Police officers, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls:
Traffic Fetish
Monday, May 9
• 12:13 a.m. — A Calle De Las Españolas caller said a man near the Convento was running through the parking lot. The man wasn’t wearing a shirt and he was being chased by a red Jeep Cherokee. The caller watched the man run through the lot and lost sight of them after the man ran up a hill.
• 1:19 a.m. — A Calle De Pajarito caller said there was a woman yelling and banging on someone’s door. A man was yelling back at the woman, saying, “Go home. That’s enough drinking.”
• 7:07 a.m. — A Calle Bonita caller said a boy was threatening suicide because he didn’t want to go to school. She said he was holding one knife to his wrist and another knife to his neck.
• 1:30 p.m. — A guinea pig, worth about $30, was stolen from Española Middle School.
• 3:21 p.m. — A State Road 106 caller said a man flashed his body parts at passing vehicles.
• 4:02 p.m. — A Hacienda Home Center caller said a heavyset man was hitting another man with a stick. The caller later said another man attacked someone with a crow bar.
• 8:37 p.m. — A State Road 519 caller said her neighbor was bleeding from the top of his head and his nose. Her neighbor said someone hit him with a tire iron.
Chain Snatched
Tuesday, May 10
• 6:47 a.m. — A Calle Sierra Vista caller said it looked like someone tried to steal his Jeep. He said it was pushed to the edge of his driveway and the radio looked like it had been tampered with.
• 12:49 p.m. — A Walgreens caller said a man wearing a black leather jacket stole a fifth of liquor and walked toward Arby’s.
• 1:56 p.m. — An Old Hospital Road caller said a woman with a knife wanted to kill herself. The man took the knife away from the woman and cut his fingers.
• 4:35 p.m. — A Walgreens caller said he was going to the store to give his friends some money. Some men at the store asked him for money, stole his chain and punched him in the face. The caller said he did not need an ambulance.
• 6:36 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said her car was keyed and if the police didn’t catch the woman responsible she was going to harm her. While an officer was investigating this call, he came across a separate situation in which a man said he was invited to a home to drink and several men jumped him and stole his money. The men would not allow the officer inside to look for the money. He forwarded the case to the District Attorney’s Office for follow-up.
Sad-Sack Domestic Abuser
Wednesday, May 11
• 12:20 p.m. — A Camino De Las Animas caller said she and her boyfriend were in a fight. She said he was really insecure and started pushing her around. She said she fell and hit her head on the door.
• 1 p.m. — A State Road 74 caller said a man was trying to break into an abandoned house. Dispatchers tried forwarding the call to State Police, but the caller said she did not like working with State Police and did not want to talk to them.
• 1:52 p.m. — An East Pueblo Street caller said her daughter assaulted her with a knife and a board.
• 3:23 p.m. — A Fairview Post Office caller said someone pulled a knife on his grandson.
• 4:17 p.m. — An Ohkay Travel Center caller said she was driving in her green Jaguar and her boyfriend’s ex was following them in a Nissan Sentra and throwing bottles.
Drunk Chases Waterfalls
Thursday, May 12
• 10:31 a.m. — A Private Drive 1328 caller said she walked into her bedroom after being home for 30 minutes and noticed her television was missing and her closet had been ransacked.
• 12:38 p.m. — A Santa Claran Hotel and Casino caller said a girl was following her in a brown vehicle, honking her horn and flipping her off.
• 4:06 p.m. — An extremely drunk man was beside the waterfalls at the Ohkay Casino and refusing to leave. His family members wouldn’t come pick him up because he could not get off work. Officers gave the man a ride home.
• 5:10 p.m. — A Paseo de Oñate caller said a man was passed out by the side of the road and the man’s pants were down.
• 9:59 p.m. — A West Hill Street caller said someone was trying to break into her back door. The caller was awake with the lights on. The caller later said it may have just been the wind.
• 10:49 p.m. — A Calle De Pajarito caller said her ex-boyfriend called her and said he was coming over. He warned her that if she did not let him inside, he was going to break all the windows to her home and have his sister beat her up.
Gutter Purse
Friday, May 13
• 1:46 a.m. — A Calle Vigil caller said a man broke the windows to his vehicles and started threatening him, saying he had a gun.
• 11:59 a.m. — An animal control officer told dispatch he was going to investigate a report of dog-hoarding in Medanales.
• 1:13 p.m. — A County Road 51 caller said men ran out of a home in the area with a flat-screen television.
• 1:40 p.m. — An Española Hospital caller said she was selling purses and a man stole one of them. Police caught one man and found the purse in a gutter.
• 5:01 p.m. — A Big Rock Chevron station caller said a customer was harassing her because she would not reset the pump after the customer pulled off the gas hose.
• 7:43 p.m. — A Calle Vigil caller said her 13-year-old daughter may have been exchanging text messages with an older person who may have been soliciting her. Police reported later the incident was a joke and everything was OK.
World’s Greatest Mom
Saturday, May 14
• 1:54 a.m. — A North Paseo de Oñate caller wearing a Looney Toons T-shirt said a man had an argument with his mother who said she was going to call his boyfriend and tell him he was cheating on him.
• 3:03 a.m. — A County Road 56A caller said someone stole the tires from his truck and he was chasing them down back-roads.
• 11:51 a.m. — A Private Drive 1043 caller said someone stole the visor from his truck.
• 4:36 p.m. — A State Road 76 caller said she needed someone to pick her up from her dad’s house. She said she and her little sister were playing when her dad hit her in the arm. The caller said she locked herself in the car.
• 5:20 p.m. — A Wal-Mart caller said someone was in the movie aisle trying to hide DVDs. The caller said he usually tries to run from officers.
• 6:43 p.m. — A La Joya Street caller said a man was vomiting while trying to cross a fence.
• 9:43 p.m. — A Zuni Lane caller said a man was trying to break into a home. She said the man looked very drunk. The man said he didn’t have a key to the home and his mother was coming to open the door.
A Hitman for Grandma
Sunday, May 15
• 4:28 a.m. — A caller said his wife was beating him while children were present. The caller said his face was bleeding.
• 8:01 a.m. — A Shadowood Lane caller said she was having problems with her daughter who came to her house and beat her up two to three days ago. She said her daughter bruised her badly. The caller said she didn’t want to make a report if the police couldn’t arrest her daughter immediately.
• 11:59 a.m. — A McCurdy School caller said about 30 windows were broken. Police estimated there was about $3,000 of damage.
• 2:09 p.m. — A Hamm Parkway caller said her son was taking his grandfather’s truck. A man threatened the woman by saying he would get someone to kill her.
• 5:45 p.m. — An Allsup’s caller said a man was outside slapping a woman and pushing her.